MurphyMurphy:ftfa:"My problems started with alcohol. I moved on to cannabis, then cocaine, and eventually heroin. It's a typical progression for an addict."

So, what happened here? Legal pot laws hopped into the magical time machine, went back to when she was 14 and put a joint in her already drunken mouth?

Take some farking responsibility for your life. If you are an addict, that's on you. You farked up. Your parents farked up. Instead of living your life you sought out escapes from it.

Pot didn't ruin your life. Neither did heroin or cocaine or alcohol. YOU RUINED YOUR LIFE.This is the first lesson people like this have to learn if they ever want to actually go straight.

/drama student?//I'd say she sounds like the drama farking master to me.

I agree with what you said, but I would like to draw attention to the disconnect that allows people to attribute cannabis with being a gateway while ignoring alcohol, nicotine, caffeine and prescription meds as gateways.

NEWS FLASH you were always a theiving heroin addict with OCD who was prone to panic attacks. You also happen to be a pot smoker. Pot did not cause you to do all those horrible things. You did it to yourself.

Frederick:I agree with what you said, but I would like to draw attention to the disconnect that allows people to attribute cannabis with being a gateway while ignoring alcohol, nicotine, caffeine and prescription meds as gateways.

If you are a compulsive self--destructive personality, you will find a way to achieve your goal, whether that means is pot, drugs, booze, potato chips or anything else. Take away all that and you can waste your life sitting in your momma's garage playing video games until you are 40.

I stayed stoned to the gills throughout the 60s, and nobody held a gun to my head. I drank an ocean of alcohol throughout the 70s and never got hooked on it. But I stayed hooked on nicotine from 1963 to about 1995, and that was the hardest habit of all to break.

No chemical is stronger than I am, and no man on earth can tell me what to do. I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.

Don't Troll Me Bro!:FunkOut: I'd like to blame the internet for my short attention span but it was probably pre-existing and these are really good crackers and I wonder what the boiling point of neodymium is.

3127 C. Man, for someone who let the internet ruin his life you're google-fu needs work.

I was trying to force myself to remember. Then I got distracted by pictures of trans-Neptunian objects.

most substance abusers start with nicotine or alcohol. The problem isn't really the substance, but the person who has the addiction. They could have been abusing "legal" prescription meds too and it's no different than going with the illegal substances.